Locked In

Script Sample

BLAZE	Yo yo yo! Big up da East London massive! It’s dat time again! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Bring it on! Yo it’s MC Blaze on da mike controllin Always hit a strike like I’m ten-pin bowlin If yu playin Keeper I’ll always get a goal in Rhymes rock steady like a boulder in da dark I can smell yu fear like a Great White Shark Or should dat be Great Black cos white ain’t always right But whateva - you’re da meat an I’m gonna take a bite
	He makes a biting manouvre towards ZAHIDA
ZAHIDA	Get off man!
TARIQ	Ssh yu’ll get us busted!
ZAHIDA	He’s tryin a chirps me!
TARIQ	Big yous all up!
BLAZE	Da East End massive!
TARIQ	Da Stepney gals an boys!
BLAZE	Swanleigh, Mulberry, make some noise!
TARIQ	Messin up da airwaves, loud an proud
BLAZE	Crankin up da tunes for da East End crowd
TARIQ	It’s Exile FM
BLAZE	Ninety-two point ten and you’re locked into
BLAZE & TARIQ	Da Two Wise Men!
BLAZE	Yo yo yo! Big shout out to all da regular massives locked in
TARIQ	Yu know who yu are
BLAZE	And for those a yu dat don’t know
TARIQ	Dis is how it goes
BLAZE	We’re London ’s leadin
TARIQ	Talk at speedin
BLAZE	Fastest breedin
TARIQ	Leave yu bleedin
BLAZE	Hip-hoppin
TARIQ	Non-stoppin
BLAZE	Body poppin
TARIQ	Rhyme droppin
BLAZE	Nanginest
TARIQ	Banginest
BLAZE	Blinginest
TARIQ	Minginest
BLAZE	Telephone ringinest
BLAZE & TARIQ	Phone-in show!
	BLAZE and TARIQ read some messages from their phones
BLAZE	Arright big shout goin out to Wizbit and da Ginger Ninja – I see yu bredrin I see yu
TARIQ	Yeah massive holler to Rahman, Rav, Joynul and da Bangra Boys!
BLAZE	Biggin up Wiley, Wilco, Scratchy an all da bashment wastemans in 11J – you are on it!
TARIQ	Arright hold tight Alima, Asima, Shabina and all da Muslimas in Year 10 – goin out to yous lot, keep da faith yeah?
BLAZE	Arright arright arright biggin up Maximum, Lady J, Joshua, Solomon and all da Christian bruvvas an sistas in da Year 11 cookery club – easy now!
TARIQ	Cookery club?
BLAZE	Yeah man – iss Easter innit, been makin all chcolate crucifixes, mm-hm! Lickety lick!
TARIQ	Cookin’s for gels blud
BLAZE	Yo shut up Riqi – iss da gels what love it dread. (to ZAHIDA) Int dat right gelfriend?
	ZAHIDA makes a face
TARIQ	Oh man my MC’s turnin soft on me
BLAZE	Yo shut up Riqi - chefs get rich innit, don’t yu watch no telly? Or is dat forbidden by Allah an all now?
TARIQ	Shut up man!
BLAZE	Bruvva’s even given up da greeeen London Town y’kna m’sayin. Da faith ting is getting seeeerious right about now!
TARIQ	Yo I don wan talk bout dat man, we gotta start da show
BLAZE	Arright arright Welcome to da show bwoys and gyals
TARIQ	Yeah!
BLAZE	It’s da mighty Christian Muslim alliance on da big bad Ex-ile!
TARIQ	Yu mean Muslim Christian
BLAZE	Nah man we come first innit
TARIQ	Nah its da uva way round man
BLAZE	Whateva – keep it locked yeah!
TARIQ	Yeah don’t touch dat dial!
BLAZE	We keepin it real on da big bad Zile! Dere might be uvvas out dere on some little fassy stations Cloggin up da airwaves like a infestation But it ain’t a long ting workin out who’s da best On a mission to erase da competition like pests
TARIQ	Yeah dere’s Y2K or Passion FM
BLAZE	Déjà vu or 992
TARIQ	Climax, Touch, Rinse or Smile
BLAZE	But dere ain’t none better dan da big bad –
TARIQ & BLAZE	Zile!
BLAZE	Da Two Wise Men got da skillz so -
TARIQ & BLAZE	Check em!
BLAZE	Don’t even bovva wiv dem uvvas –
TARIQ & BLAZE	Fuhget em!
TARIQ	Cos we da Two Wise Men an dis is how it goes
BLAZE	We chat about da issues dat need to be exposed
TARIQ	Cos out dere on road fings is reachin overload
BLAZE	Dere’s a bomb in dis manor an its gonna
BLAZE & TARIQ	Explode!
BLAZE	Yeah B to da L to da A to da Zee E to da end like 1 2 3 Spittin like fire on da M-I-C Smoke an flames messin up yu gaze Blowin out yu speakers it’s MC Blaze Jammin pon mike while da bassline plays Chillin like a villain but I’m only teenage Mother in a daze prays it’s only a phase But I’m gettin recognition for ma rhymes nowadays Shootin out ma brain like voodoo rays Erase da competition knock em all sideways Dey’re Tesco salad cream I’m Heinz mayonnaise But I wouldn’t be nuttin wivout ma DJ Rippin up da decks it’s Riqi A!
TARIQ	Yo it’s DJ Riqi an I scratch a tricky beat Broken bhangra riddim aimin straight at yu feet Bruvvas stop me on da street say ‘Blud I heard yu last night Ain’t never danced like dat in ma life But what’s dat spangly sound dat was rippin up da floor?’ Well dat’s a Bangladeshi riddim an dere ain’t no cure! Cos I’m a Asian bruvva got suttin to say Like to DJ da Bengali way Cos da past was black and white but da future’s multi-colour Gonna break onto da scene like a dream, Inshallah
BLAZE	Spittin over bashment, spittin over grime Belly full a fire an a headful a rhymes It’s da lyrical wordsmith powered by spliff Bitchin in da kitchen like a TV chef Cookin up riddims like 123 When I‘m around yu betta watch it, like a DVD Cos its MC Blaze and DJ Riqs Insane in da brain wiv lyrical tricks Faster dan Keanu when he’s in da Matrix Betta run for cover cos dere’s gonna be a storm Cos we phat like Biggie an dirty like porn
TARIQ	Yeah we da East End boyz and we gonna make noise
BLAZE	Ambassadors of realness, makin yu feel dis Sickness in yu guts like
BLAZE & TARIQ	Old skool mealness!
BLAZE	Yeah we’re da Two Wise Men an dis is how it goes
TARIQ	We chat about da issues dat need to be exposed
BLAZE	Cos out dere on road tings is reachin overload
TARIQ	Dere’s a bomb in dis manor an its gonna
BLAZE & TARIQ	Exploooooode!
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